UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 27, Page 5
April 13, 1995
PTTP sets performances for this June in Germany

     The University's Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) has
been invited to Germany to perform its production of Bertolt Brecht's
Mother Courage and her Children at the Neighbour America Festival
Kultursommer in June.
     The players will perform at a former American cruise missle
station PYDNA in Hasselbach, where rocket bunkers, barbed wire fences
and concrete runways will create an ideal setting for Brecht's message
on human beings' inability to profit from war.
     Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, this
production is dedicated to German/American solidarity and friendship,
which has grown over the past five decades.
     The German Ministry for Education and Culture of the Land
Rheinland-Pfalz will sponsor the production, staged by German director
and Brechtian scholar, Heinz-Uwe Haus, a founding member of the
International Classical Theatre.
     PTTP students will leave for Germany at the end of May to
rehearse and will present the production June 9-18.
     PTTP also was invited to the fourth annual PODIUM Student Theatre
Festival in Moscow this spring-an offer that had to be declined due to
scheduling conflicts with PTTP's regular season in Newark.